[tex-live] ANN: TLPDB change

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Dec 3 16:35:28 CET 2007


Dear all!

Please note that 
	TLPDB->location
has gone and is replaced by
	TLPDB->root
specifying the actual ROOT of the installation.

If you really need the file itself please ONLY USE
	use TeXLive::TLConfig qw/$InfraLocation $DatabaseName/;
	$tlpdb->root/$InfraLocation/$DatabaseName
and nothing else. Thanks.

I removed all traces of texlive.tlpdb and location in all the bin files
and modules, and tried that the installer and the tlpsrc2tlpdb still
works, but I cannot guarantee that I didn't miss something. Please
report in case of failures.

Motivation behind: I needed the root of the installation quite often
(creating of fmtutil.cnf and relatives, etc) and I first tried to have
location and root, but it was too much pain. 

Best wishes

Norbert

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